FP gauge install
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Burning Brakes
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From: Oregon City , Oregon USA
FP gauge install
I'm trying to hook up my fuel pressure gauge to the end of the fuel rail and am having a problem finding an adaptor. I've searched the archives and all of the suggestions refer to an AN to pipe adaptor but here is the issue: when checking the threads the fitting on the rail didn't seem to match anything that I could come up with. I took the dust cap down to the local Aeroquip dealer and they said that the threads were actually a metric size. The standard threaded fitting would thread on if forced but do not mesh quite right. Does anyone make a proper (metric to standard) adaptor?
Last edited by hermit; Mar 27, 2007 at 01:33 AM.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Oregon City , Oregon USA
It's an auto meter 6163. What I don't get is the dust cap will thread on a -4 fitting but a -4 female won't thread on the fuel rail. That tells me that the thread is not metric. Also if a fuel pressure tester will thread on it can't be an oddball thread. Maybe I'm just trying the wrong AN fitting.
Burning Brakes
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From: Johnston, Iowa
Found the specs for the adapter here in the archives when I installed my fp gauge over a year ago. You have to relieve the fuel pressure, remove the pin in the valve at the fuel rail and then thread the adapter and then the sender on to the end of the rail...
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From: FI Performance : Norwalk Connecticut www.FIPERFORMANCE.com
Guys,
I have a 18" braided fuel line with the -4an on one end to 1/8" on the other. This is part of my a-pillar gauge kits. They are $35 plus shipping, about $5 for ground. This line is a great way to relocate whatever you have inline away from the block/heat.
PM me if you want one, in stock ready to go.
I have a 18" braided fuel line with the -4an on one end to 1/8" on the other. This is part of my a-pillar gauge kits. They are $35 plus shipping, about $5 for ground. This line is a great way to relocate whatever you have inline away from the block/heat.
PM me if you want one, in stock ready to go.
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Burning Brakes
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From: Oregon City , Oregon USA
Guys,
I have a 18" braided fuel line with the -4an on one end to 1/8" on the other. This is part of my a-pillar gauge kits. They are $35 plus shipping, about $5 for ground. This line is a great way to relocate whatever you have inline away from the block/heat.
PM me if you want one, in stock ready to go.
I have a 18" braided fuel line with the -4an on one end to 1/8" on the other. This is part of my a-pillar gauge kits. They are $35 plus shipping, about $5 for ground. This line is a great way to relocate whatever you have inline away from the block/heat.
PM me if you want one, in stock ready to go.
But I am still thinking about that Cartek line lock.